Katie Rainwater
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Graduate Student
Katie Rainwater is a PhD candidate in the Department of Development Sociology. Her dissertation research explores labor relations in the shrimp industries of Bangladesh and Thailand.
Committee chair/advisor: Eli Friedman
Discipline: Development sociology
Primary Language: Thai, Bengali, Burmese
Research Countries: Thailand, Myanmar (Burma)
Research Interests: Labor, migration, food and agriculture, global commodity chains, economic precarity